Cutting-scale for cheese.



No. 657,620. Patented sept. leon.

H. G. ROTH.

CUTTING scALE Fon cHEsE.

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Patented Sept. Il, |900. H. G. ROTH. CUTTING SCALE FOR CHEESE.

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UNITED STATES` PATENT FEICE.

HENRY c. ROTH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

CUTTING-SCALE FOR CHEESE.

"SPECFICATION raming part of Letters Patent No. c'ezeed'aated september 11, '1900.

Application filed Maj l7`, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting-Scales for Cheese; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has for its object to provide a chart or cutting-scale adapted for application to a iiat and round or circular cake or block of cheese or other commodity and by the use of which such cake or block, regardless of its size, weight, and value, may be subdivided either according to fractions in pounds or in fractions of the total selling price of the cheese.

To the ends above indicated the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and delined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a plan view showing my improved scale or chart as applied to a cake of cheese or other commodity, a section thereof being out and partially removed. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line x2 m2 of Fig. l, but showing the parts of the device slightly separated; and Fig. 3 is a plan View, on an enlarged scale, showing a segment of the scale or chart proper.

The invention in its preferred form will be specifically described.

As illustrated in Fig. l, the complete scale is preferably made up of three disks ct, b, and c, concentrically secured at their centers by a metallic eyelet d. The disks are preferably made of quite thin and tough paper gummed on their under sides for use, as hereinafter specified, and they are provided, respectively, with concentric circles of perforations a b c', which adapt the marginal portions thereof to be torn from the bodies, as also hereinafter described. The disk b is the scale member or chart proper, and the spaces between the concentric perforations b are in- Serial No. 16,972. (No model.)

dependently subdivided, each zone being appropriated to a cheese of agiven weight and graduated to indicate the segments of that cheese in pounds and fractions thereof and in fractions of the total retail value of the cheese at a certain price per pound which should be cut for a given weight or for a certain sum of money. To illustrate by specific example, the chart b illustrated in the drawings is graduated for cheeses Varying in weight from twenty to forty pounds, to be sold at a retail price of twenty cents per pound. The outer zone ofthe chartdisk b,forinstance, is appropriated to a forty-pound cheese, and hence is subdivided into forty equal parts to `indicate pound-segments, and still further subdivided to indicate fractions of a pound. In the drawings light unbroken circles are shown as extending concentrically through each zone to separate the said zones into concentric halves. These unbroken lines are not essential, but serve to separate the pound and the price graduations. The inner half or annular section of the zone marked 4() pounds, for instance, is divided into forty equal parts to indicate the pounds and still further subdivided to indicate halves and quarters of a pound, While the outer annular section of the said 40 zone is marked at intervals 800, which indicates eight hundred cents or eight dollars, and is subdivided to indicate segments which should be cut for any certain sum of money in units of ten cents. To still further illustrate, a forty-pound cheese at twenty cents a pound should bring eight dollars or eight hundred cents, and hence forten cents a purchaser should receive a segment of the cheese equal to one-eightieth of the Whole cake. Hence the outer half of the forty-pound zone is divided by short.radial lines or otherwise into eighty equal parts that are subdivided by a zigzag line that cuts the half zone into a series of triangles. The extreme length of each triangle indicates a tencent segment of cheese, while one-half or onequarter of such triangle indicates, respectively, a iive-cent or a tWo-andahalfcent segment. As illustrated in Fig. 3, the in- Wardly-diverging triangles are marked 10' cents to indicate the value of a segment of that extent, while the outWardly-diverging triangles are marked SOO to indicate the IOO total ret-ail value of the cheese. In Fig. 1 the numerals or notations are left @E from the exposed' section of the chart or disk b, and in Fig. 3 the graduations and notations are shown as carried ont for the twenty-pound and' fortypound zones only; but the manner of lling in the other zones'willof'couirse' be under'- stood from the description and illustrations already given.

The manner of applying the device to' a cheese is as follows: The larger disk (tis placed upon the cheese concentric therewith, and its outer marginal portion isconcentrically'torn away on the line of one or the other of the perforated segments d', so as to make the said disk of the samediameter as the cheese; i The said disk a is then moistened` and stuck to the cheese. If the cheese happens tobe a forty-poundcake,` the chart-disk b would be left intact,y and the upper disk or shieldl c being also left intact will leave exposed. only the outer or forty-poundA zone of the disk 19 'as shown in Fig. 1. For -a twentypound cheese all of that portion of the said-disk out.-

ward .of the 20 zone would be torn` away,

andthe upper disk or shield cwould also be torn away on the inner circular line of the said 20 zone. In short, in any case where the selling price is that indicated on the` chart b--to wit, in the illustration given, twenty cents per poundthe disks b and c should be so tornl on the lines of their concentric perforations h' ci', respectively, that only one zone of the said disk b--to wit, that zone which corresponds to the weight of the cheese-will be exposed. After the disks hand c are properly torn. they should bef moistened and stuck together andto the centeringdisk a. When the scale or chart is applied to the cheese, as above indicated., the salesman may very quickly and-accurately determine and cut either according to weight or sum of money a segment of cheese of the proper size. By placing the endof the cheeseknife in one of the serrations of thef eyelet d, with its intermediate portion intersectingtheproper indication on the exposedzone of the disk b, the segment of cheese may be veryaccurately determined and cut. section shown as cut is a two-pound. or a forty-cent segmentwhichis appa-rent from the fact that it contains two of the poundmark indications and four of the ten-cent indications. Thus it will be seen thatthe seg-- ment of the scale or chart which adheres to the segment of cheese cut from the mainbody will indicate to the purchaser they amount of cheese, both in weight andfin val-ue, that-he receives.

In most cases itis proposed to furnishtwo scales or complete charts for each pri'ceper pound at whichthe diierent cheeses-mayv be sold,the one chart containing the even poundsand the other the odd pou.nds,.betweenwhatever limits may be foundf necessary or desirable. A single chart might contain both the In Fig. 1 the*- odd and eveii pounds; but this produces either avery large chart or one that must be very closely 'gured and graduated. It is, however, possible to use one of the charts in several dierent ways. For instance, with the chart illustrated, which is calculated at l twenty cents per pound?, itfifs possible to cut a forty-pound cheese which, for instance, is Yworth at. retailV price fifteen cents per pound. In this case if the cheese is to be cut by the f pound the forty-pound graduation may be kread the same as in the illustration above given, inasmuch as price is not considered. Howeveaafortvpound cheese at fifteen cents per pound should sell for six dollars, which is the same asa thirty-pound cheese sold at twenty cents per pound. Thereforev in cutting by price on the twenty-cent-per-pou-ndscalev the ten-cent graduatiens of the. thirtypound zone should be followed: In this case toen-able the salesman to readily follow the proper price markings the shield or upper disk c should be torn away on the inner cirl cular line of the thirty-pound` zone.

lthe use of this device is to enable the salesman to socut the cheese that each purchaser will receive justthe amount of cheese that hef pays for and that the merchant will receivewheir the entire cheese is sold the full amount which he should have received, or, iny other words, the total retail price of the cake ot cheese of a given weight at a certain selling price per pound. This is done with the above device by preventing both over and under weights. It will of course beu-nderstood that very slight overweights to a large number of purchasers-of small sectionsof the cheese will make the merchant considerably short by the time the cheese iscompletely sold.

v The device above d.escribed,it willof cou-rse be understood, is capable of many modifications in its details of construction and arrangement of parts within the scope of my invention. v

The disks characterized by the members a landA c, while important, may, nevertheless, in g. many cases-be dispensed with. The centerging-diska instead of being secured to the cheese by the adhesive material may vbe tacked thereto. However, whether adhesive material isused or not a wire nail or brad f is preferably driven through the eyelet d and 1 into the cak-e of cheese to hold the entire devicel properly centered.

What IA claim, anddesire to secure by Let- {ter-siy Patent of the United States, is as folylows:

1. A cutting-scale or chart fory cheeses, &c., formed of material adapted to be readily cut witlra knife and securable to one face of a cake of cheese, said. chart having circular f graduations= indicating fractions or subdivisions of the total cheese, the section of the lchart cut andV remaining attached tothe cut Thegreat object sought to beobtained by IOO IIO

segient of the cheese indicating the fraction cut, substantially as described.

2. A cutting-scale or chart for cheeses, duc., in the form of a paper disk having concentric zones separated by perforated circles adapting the same to be torn, the said zones being graduated to indicate fractions orsubdivisions of the total of cheese, substantially as described.

3. A scale for cutting cheese, te., comprising in combination the centering-disk a with concentric lines of perforations a', and the disk l) separated into concentric zones by the perforate ciroes b', each Zone being graduated and marked to indicate fractions or sub' divisions of the cheese, substantially as dee scribed.

4. A cutting-scale for cheeses, dto., coxnprising in combination the disks a, b and c' connected at their centers by the eyeiet ci, said disk b being graduated and marked to indicate fractions ersubdivisions of the total cheese, substantially as described.

n testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHAs. S. DOW, L. F. Dow. 

